Weather eye: winter has returned

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Today’s cold weather is normal for April after the freakish heat of March

It is time to get out coats and turn up the heating, winter has returned. A biting raw wind is blowing from the Arctic, with heavy snow yesterday and snow today across parts of Scotland and northern England. “April is the cruellest month,” wrote T. S. Eliot in The Waste Land, and it is living up to its reputation — only last week, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, set a new record high for March in Scotland of 24C (75F) and today it will more likely be 4C (39F). By tonight the whole country will be shivering, with strong winds and even snow on